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One of the cats is apparently taunting Dani.
A few months ago, Baldur started going off early in the morning (6ish), meowing in the bedroom. I've been chasing him out and, if it happens a second time, throwing him out and closing the door. This has been happening on a regular basis -- not necessarily every day, but most of them.
Dani left for Origins (gaming con) on Wednesday and returned Sunday. Baldur did not do this even once during those four days. This morning, he was back to normal.
Heh. Baldur is yanking Dani's chain, it appears. I wonder why.
Sunday dinner last night was just three of us; Dani had spent the last several days around a convention full of people, so he bowed out, and the other regulars were busy with various things. So Ralph, Lori, and I sat around chatting about various things, including a fair bit of D&D geeking. (We've decided what to do about polymorph and templates.) Ralph made wonderful steaks on the grill. I've never learned the art of cooking steaks -- I can do good things with roasts, with birds, with stews and soups and chili, but steaks elude me. Ralph has the knack.
Dani did not come home from Origins with many bags of games this year. It was apparently a slow shopping year. :-) He did play some interesting games, but didn't find them for sale.
I spent some of Saturday studying the Torah portion I'm chanting next month. It's a longer portion than I would have bitten off on my own initiative, but it's managable. So far it's going fairly well, and I've internalized a couple more of the trope symbols.
Today while studying with my rabbi we came to the justification in the talmud for all of the Torah and all of the oral law having been given to Moshe at Sinai. (I actually anticipated where the argument was going, and I think my rabbi was pleased that I saw it before we got there.) I had not realized before that according to this argument all of scripture, not just all of torah, was given at Sinai. In other words, that collection includes prophets and writings. That's an idea I'm having trouble with. (Berachot 5a, for those who care.)
A few months ago, Baldur started going off early in the morning (6ish), meowing in the bedroom. I've been chasing him out and, if it happens a second time, throwing him out and closing the door. This has been happening on a regular basis -- not necessarily every day, but most of them.
Dani left for Origins (gaming con) on Wednesday and returned Sunday. Baldur did not do this even once during those four days. This morning, he was back to normal.
Heh. Baldur is yanking Dani's chain, it appears. I wonder why.
Sunday dinner last night was just three of us; Dani had spent the last several days around a convention full of people, so he bowed out, and the other regulars were busy with various things. So Ralph, Lori, and I sat around chatting about various things, including a fair bit of D&D geeking. (We've decided what to do about polymorph and templates.) Ralph made wonderful steaks on the grill. I've never learned the art of cooking steaks -- I can do good things with roasts, with birds, with stews and soups and chili, but steaks elude me. Ralph has the knack.
Dani did not come home from Origins with many bags of games this year. It was apparently a slow shopping year. :-) He did play some interesting games, but didn't find them for sale.
I spent some of Saturday studying the Torah portion I'm chanting next month. It's a longer portion than I would have bitten off on my own initiative, but it's managable. So far it's going fairly well, and I've internalized a couple more of the trope symbols.
Today while studying with my rabbi we came to the justification in the talmud for all of the Torah and all of the oral law having been given to Moshe at Sinai. (I actually anticipated where the argument was going, and I think my rabbi was pleased that I saw it before we got there.) I had not realized before that according to this argument all of scripture, not just all of torah, was given at Sinai. In other words, that collection includes prophets and writings. That's an idea I'm having trouble with. (Berachot 5a, for those who care.)
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Ch. 4 ("Revelation"), section IV ("The Written Torah"), p. 141, 2nd. paragraph: "In the last citation we have the three sections into which the Scriptures were divided: Pentateuch (often referred to specifically as Torah), Prophets, and Hagiographa. The last two are sometimes quoted under the designation of Kabbalah (tradition) (R.H. 7a)."
P. 141, last paragraph, a sort of negative reference: "A tradition tells that `the Torah (i.e. the Pentateuch) was given originally in separate scrolls'..." — clarifying what "Torah" applies to here because the rest of the book suggests otherwise.
P. 145, last paragraph: "It was an accepted dogma that the Torah was inspired by God. (...) Especially with respect to the Pentateuch it was held that every word of it was verbally inspired."
I will note that the terminology used in Everyman's Talmud seems to me like it's geared more toward Christian than Jewish readers; quite possibly Cohen chose to present Tanach as "Torah" rather than introduce unfamilar terms (N.B.: for some reason I associate the term "Pentateuch" with Catholicism). Although he also uses the term "Scriptures" to refer to the same text (as quoted above), so it's still not entirely clear what he intended. In general, however, when the book refers to "Torah" it means the whole of Scripture i.e. the Tanach); whenever it refers to the Five Books of Moshe, it uses the term "Pentateuch", and when quoting another source which uses "Torah" in that sense it inserts a parenthetical explanation.
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Hm. Not sure why that would be.
I personally like the sound of the word "Pentateuch". It's a dactyl (at least, the way I pronounce it, it is), and it sounds kinda cool. I'll use it over "Chumash" any time. (I know this is not technically correct as I'm using it to describe a book which has the torah + haftorot [selections from the prophets which are read after the Torah on Saturdays and holidays] -- but I don't care. Pentateuch, Pentateuch, Pentateuch.)